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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regulation-of-care-social-service-workers-scotland-order-2024/note",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2024/56",
  "legislation_title": "The Regulation of Care (Social Service Workers) (Scotland) Order 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regulation-of-care-social-service-workers-scotland-order-2024",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nSection 44(1) of the Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act 2001 (“the Act”) requires the Scottish Social Services Council to maintain a register of social workers, social service workers of any other description prescribed and persons participating in a course or employed in a position probationary to becoming either a social worker or a social service worker of a qualified description.\nThe Regulation of Care (Social Service Workers) (Scotland) Order 2005 (“the 2005 Order”) (as amended) prescribed a description of social service worker for the purposes of section 44(1)(b) of the Act.\nThis Order revokes the 2005 Order and all amending Orders and prescribes a description of social service worker for the purposes of section 44(1)(b) of the Act. Article 2 provides that the description of social service worker prescribed is a person who is either a social care worker or a children and young people’s worker.\nThe Order provides that persons who are registered with, or are a member of one or more of, the bodies set out in article 3 are excluded from the description of social service worker.\nArticle 4 of the Order provides for a transitional provision, the effect of which is that people registered under section 44(1)(b) of the Act, by virtue of article 2 of the 2005 Order, immediately before 3rd June 2024 are to be treated as if registered under the relevant description as provided for under article 2 of this Order, namely a social care worker description or a children and young people’s worker description.\nArticle 5 of the Order revokes the 2005 Order and all instruments which amended it.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2024/56/note",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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